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OCHA head in Gaza: 'War without limits' as medics found in mass grave, supplies cut off
Summary
Jonathan Whittle, head of OCHA in the occupied Palestinian territory, described large-scale civilian harm, the discovery of a mass grave containing paramedics and Red Crescent staff, and a month-long halt in supplies into Gaza that has left 2.1 million people trapped and increasingly deprived.
Jonathan Whittle, head of office for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory, told a United Nations Correspondents Association briefing that humanitarian conditions in Gaza have “defied decency” and amounted to a “war without limits.” He described a recent mission to Rafah in which OCHA and colleagues uncovered a mass grave containing medical workers from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and civil defence staff, still in uniforms and gloves, and said ambulances, a fire truck and a UN vehicle had been crushed in the area.
Whittle said large parts of Gaza are subject to forced-displacement orders and that access to essential supplies has collapsed. “Today unfortunately marks one month without any supplies entering into Gaza,” he said, adding that the enclave’s population of about 2,100,000 people is “trapped, bombed, starved.” He said 64% of Gaza falls within…
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